Didn’t you work with Kali? My mom has interest in her and I was wondering if u know a good book to get her for mother’s Day on her?
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That’s sweet, I’ll try my best! 
Can you tell me what her practice looks like? How deep into the dark and forbidden does she want to go?
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Long ago I found a great book with different stories about Goddess. Kali’s was the only one that I remember. I’ll have to look and see if I still have it, because it was about time and if we didn’t have death the world would be overrun. It was very thought provoking.
Meanwhile, here’s a few that looked promising when I looked up Kali books on Amazon.
Goddess Kali: Tales of the Divine Feminine in Hindu Mythology
Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
I haven’t read any of them, but I’m at least putting a couple on my wish list, despite being involved in looking into Brigid right now. They look interesting!
Hope this helps!
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These two are my all time favorites, about Kali and other Hindu goddesses, and the divine feminine (Shakti, Devi) in general
This one goes a bit deeper into her tantric rituals, and has some very transformative (and provocative) ones
This one could be a good intermediate book about her, I’ve read it some time ago but don’t remember much
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This is adorable by the way 
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Thankyou for sending me these recommendations I will be bookmark ing them. Also if you have anything to say about Kali or working with her please tell me about her so I can send my mom more info on her so she can reach out to her? Any .music or meditations. Offerings? Methods used to call her forth?
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I’m happy to help
This weekend I met someone who also works with Kali, and she said that Kali also comes to her in dreams. Something I’ve noticed, she tends to do that especially with major life changes. She can help with overcoming fear, and transforming anger and violent impulses. She’s also a mother, and takes care of her own.
Mantra songs for Kali
- Gia – Om Namo Kali (If it doesn’t serve, then burn it all away)
- Mercedes Bahleda – Kali Durga
- Tina Malia – Om Mata (Om Kali)
Chanting
For offerings, we chant her mantras, she likes blood too. Ashes, charcoal, the color black, everything to do with time, transformation and death. Red and passion are very much her things too, and fire. Her phase of the moon is the dark moon.
Contemplanting her yantra (a sacred geometric pattern) is another way to approach her, if you’re a visual person.
From the Tantric Kali book by Daniel Odier:
The contemplation of Kali can also take the form of meditation on her yantra. The word yantra in Sanskrit literally means “a support or instrument.” A yantra is “a mystic diagram used as a symbol of the Divine as well as of its powers and aspects.”
In the Kali yantra the five triangles and their fifteen points represent the fifteen Kali Nityas, the fifteen days of the black moon. The eight-petalled lotus represents the eight chakras of the Matsyendranath system in which the eight Bhairava and the eight Bhairavi, the subtle, secret nocturnal aspects of Shiva, manifest and join together. The triangle represents the yoni, the source of the cosmos, power, and creation, the Cosmic Mother. The central point represents the center of the cosmos, the infinite. The Kali yantra should be projected into dark blue space in front of the face; it can be small or as large as the body of the practitioner.
From the same book
Kali is black or midnight blue. All colors blend together in the dark. Kali unifies duality; all manifestation disappears in the black. “Just as all colors disappear in black, all names and all forms disappear in her,” says the Mahanirvana Tantra. Kali is the final fusion of appearances in the reality of the Self. She transcends all form. She is worshipped during the black moon, around funeral pyres, and during cremation chants. She is worshipped Tuesdays at midnight. She loves deserted places and crossroads.
Her worshippers, however, see her as luminous. Ramakrishna points out that “you see Her as black because you are far away from Her. Go near and you will find her devoid of all colour. The water of a lake appears black from a distance. Go near and take the water in your hand, and you will see that it has no colour at all. Similarly the sky looks blue from a distance. But look at the atmosphere near you; it has no colour.”
“I am Great Nature, consciousness, happiness, the quintessential,” says Kali in the Chudamani Tantra. She is the Cosmic Mother, dark as storm clouds, naked with wild hair falling to her knees. Kali creates the cosmos, the elements, and language through the fifty severed heads of her necklace. She is sometimes represented as a dazzling adolescent, and sometimes in her terrifying and gaunt aspect. A crescent moon shines on her forehead; precious stones brighten her body. Her yoni (female sexual organ; womb, origin, source) is open to the world. Her tongue sticks out from a bloody mouth. Patches of blood are splashed on her body. Each aspect of her appearance in her various forms has potent meaning, which educates and enlightens her devotees.
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Thankyou I screen shorted ur info and sent it all to her. 
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